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Booting is the initial set of operations that a computer system performs when electrical power is switched on. The process begins when a computer that has been turned off is re-energized, and ends when the computer is ready to perform its normal operations.

I have just installed Windows 10 final (from USB stick as my laptop does not have DVD). Everything went without a problem. The computer restarts correctly while an USB device is inserted (it does not ...

I've been reading up on setting up a PXELinux machine to run side by side with WDS on Windows and all the guides talk about setting up a DNS and DHCP server on the same server as the PXELinux.
What ...

I have two Server 2003 enterprise edition virtual machines that are running windows in Debug mode. There is no /DEBUG switch in the boot.ini file, and I have even tried adding /NODEBUG but they still ...

I have an HP DL360 G7 server I plan to install KVM and ZFS on. The purpose is going to be a lab in a box. I have the 8 drive bays in the front loaded with 4 drives and an SSD (for the ZFS ZIL cache). ...

I'm trying to install OpenIndiana (taken from http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/151a8/oi-dev-151a8-live-x86.iso or server version http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/151a8/oi-dev-151a8-text-x86.iso) on a ...

Here's the situation: A Windows RAID 1 has partially failed. The broken disk was replaced with a new disk. The old two disks do not have Advanced Format (bigger sector size). The new replacement disk ...

I'm building a machine and having a nightmare getting it to boot. It turns on, but does not display anything on the screen and the 7 Segment LED on the motherboard shows QCode 61, which according to ...

AuFS (another union file system) allows us to merge two trees into one, even when those trees overlap.
We can then direct writes to the merged tree towards one of the branches and reads to another.
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INTRO:
I have spent countless days attaching/detaching MOLEX->SATA power cables, rebooting machines and trying hundreds of edits and commands. I am on the verge of desperation and desperately in need ...

I recently suffered the joy of a server crash (Ubuntu 12.04) and a subsequent failure to reboot.
It appears that the OS attempted to mount the NFS shares in the /etc/fstab file before networking had ...

We are working with a few single board computers (SBC). We generate linux embedded images with Yocto (using U-boot as bootloader), and we deploy it manually on SD cards. This works well for now, when ...

I'm trying to figure out if this is even possible. I want my laptops to automatically connect to a trusted network if they're in range (Ie my wireless or hardwired). If they're not in range I want the ...

I am setting up Dell Precision 7910 workstation that has LSI SAS 3008 controller and 2 SAS drives connected to it.
It came with Windows 7 installed on drive with smaller drive number (0x09 on LSI bus ...

how does one verify the bootability of initramfs image without actually rebooting the system -- the reason why we need this is - suppose if one takes the system for a short window and suddenly finds ...

I am running radius server on my CentOS 6.6, yesterday I tried to reboot my machine with sudo reboot with using Putty. It didn't restarted for some reason and I had to go to my DataCenter. When I shut ...

I am struggling to find a way to automate chkdsk /f on all drives at startup, as so far I couldn't accomplish this task.
Cannot use chkdsk in a batch file, as it would require user intervention (Y/N ...

We have a few SBCs of various modeles (but a lot of freescale). When received, these SBCs are bare (no BIOS/U-boot). We generate linux embedded images with Yocto (using U-boot as bootloader), and we ...

Today after restarting my data server I was unable to boot because one of the drives wasn't being recognized any more, it is still spinning when I connect it and not making many weird noises except ...

I have had an issue on a few Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard servers recently where when doing a standard reboot, it will reboot into the WinRE recovery environment. Going to the console of the ...

I ran the upgrade assistant provided by CentOS for upgrading from CentOS 6 to 7. The upgrade appeared to have been a success, however my system now hangs when trying to boot up. (Keep in mind I have ...

I have been unsuccessfully trying to configure my Ubuntu 14.04 server to start rpcbind on boot.
RPCbind is installed and works fine if I start it manually with
service rpcbind start
I have added the ...

created user in centos and edited nano /etc/passwd and edited created user as user:x:0:0::/home/user:/bin/bash and logged as that created user and issued kill -9 -1, from then on words my server not ...